H+ Magazine wrote that the film focuses "on the various emerging technologies that Transhumanism has coalesced around and feature illuminating (or potentially terrifying) interviews with scientists working in these fields",[5] and Crónicas de Esperantia wrote that the film was an excellent documentary that shares some future keys.[6] Christopher Webster of Quiet Earth reviewed the documentary and wrote that it "is a really smart look at humanity's quest for immortality through science" and how with its focus on hard science "gets into how this quest effects art and culture and how the whole mess intersects to form the very fabric of who we are."

Proposals on the following themes that can be presented through a variety of formats (panel discussions, workshops, e-posters, paper presentations and learning zone):
- 21st Century Skills
- 21st Century Schools for Inclusive, Equitable and Quality Education
- 21st Century Policies for the implementation and mainstreaming of digital pedagogies in education systems

Final date for submission: 15 August 2017

The UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) is organizing an international conference titled ‘Transforming Education Conference for Humanity’ (TECH) in partnership with the Government of Andhra Pradesh in Visakhapatnam, India from December 16 – 18, 2017.

TECH 2017 will be the first in a series of biennial conferences focused on educational technology and digital pedagogies for building peaceful and sustainable societies, towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 4.7.

TECH 2017 will provide a unique platform for learners and experts from across the globe including Ministers of education, information & communications technology and youth as well as senior policy makers, entrepreneurs, education technology providers, teachers, teacher educators, education psychologists, researchers and neuroscientists to collaborate, innovate and work towards transforming education for humanity.

jueves, 27 de julio de 2017

Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. When our race has reached its ultimate achievements, and the stars themselves are scattered no more widely than the seed of Adam, even then we shall still be like ants crawling on the face of the Earth. The ants have covered the world, but have they conquered it — for what do their countless colonies know of it, or of each other?

Arthur C. Clarke, We'll Never Conquer Space (1960)

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in the act of creation itself. The scientist's discoveries impose his own order on chaos, as the composer or painter imposes his; an order that always refers to limited aspects of reality, and is based on the observer's frame of reference, which differs from period to period as a Rembrandt nude differs from a nude by Manet.

miércoles, 26 de julio de 2017

The human species can, if it wishes, transcend itself —not just sporadically, an individual here in one way, an individual there in another way, but in its entirety, as humanity. We need a name for this new belief. Perhaps transhumanism will serve: man remaining man, but trans­cending himself, by realizing new possibilities of and for his human nature.

“I believe in transhumanism”: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold of a new kind of existence, as different from ours as ours is from that of Pekin man. It will at last be consciously fulfilling its real destiny.

H+ Magazine wrote that the film focuses "on the various emerging technologies that Transhumanism has coalesced around and feature illuminating (or potentially terrifying) interviews with scientists working in these fields",[5] and Crónicas de Esperantia wrote that the film was an excellent documentary that shares some future keys.[6] Christopher Webster of Quiet Earth reviewed the documentary and wrote that it "is a really smart look at humanity's quest for immortality through science" and how with its focus on hard science "gets into how this quest effects art and culture and how the whole mess intersects to form the very fabric of who we are."(leer más...)

martes, 25 de julio de 2017

A virtual world that runs on open standards
Decentraland is a virtual reality platform powered by the Ethereum blockchain. Users can create, experience, and monetize content and applications.
Aquí os dejo también el White Paper de Decentraland

H+ Magazine wrote that the film focuses "on the various emerging technologies that Transhumanism has coalesced around and feature illuminating (or potentially terrifying) interviews with scientists working in these fields",[5] and Crónicas de Esperantia wrote that the film was an excellent documentary that shares some future keys.[6] Christopher Webster of Quiet Earth reviewed the documentary and wrote that it "is a really smart look at humanity's quest for immortality through science" and how with its focus on hard science "gets into how this quest effects art and culture and how the whole mess intersects to form the very fabric of who we are."(leer más...)

Clifford Stoll captivates his audience with a wildly energetic sprinkling of anecdotes, observations, asides -- and even a science experiment. After all, by his own definition, he's a scientist: "Once I do something, I want to do something else."

Astronomer Clifford Stoll helped to capture a notorious KGB hacker back in the infancy of the Internet. His agile mind continues to lead him down new paths -- from education and techno-skepticism to the making of zero-volume bottles.

This study explores users’ and librarians’ perspectives on the role of reference
resources in research and teaching in today’s academic institutions. It examines
how users seek contextual information and guidance for areas of scholarship as
they conduct research, and how reference resources can support their work.
the 3 strands of the research included
• A review of existing literature.
• In-depth qualitative interviews with 16 librarians and 18 end-users
(academic faculty and students).
• A survey of 164 librarians.Key Findings

• Although recognition of ‘reference’ as a distinct category of resources is declining, the underlying
need for contextual information remains significant and, in some areas, new needs are emerging.

• Users’ research needs are moving away from basic factual information and terminology, for which
users generally turn to free online sources.

• Given the quantity of information and content available to users, resources offering guidance to a
field of study and its scholarship retain appeal to users, as a bridge between introductory materials
and increasingly specialized research publications, and to support work in interdisciplinary fields.

• As users are decreasingly likely to identify ‘reference’ resources as a distinct category, their utilization
relies on their visibility and discoverability. Since ways in which users discover and access
content are subject to ongoing change, this is likely to remain a constant challenge facing publishers,
librarians, and researchers alike.(leer más...)
Fuente: [ slideshare vía Oxford University Press ]